Sudden Death Brewing
Sudden Death Brewing is an independent craft brewery and brewpub founded in January 2022 by Oliver Schmökel and Jan Eric Nagel, two ice-hockey fans from the Timmendorfer Strand area on the Baltic coast. The brewery is housed in Hall 48 of the Gollan shipyard district (Werftquartier) in Lübeck, a venue that opened in April 2022. The founders drew inspiration for the name — a reference to sudden-death overtime in ice hockey — from American craft beers they discovered during trips to follow the Boston Bruins. The taproom and brewpub serve a rotating range of styles including Pale Ales, IPAs, Imperial IPAs, Stouts, and Sours.
Beers by Sudden Death Brewing
15 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Sudden Death Brewing brew across 4 style families.
Across these 15 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
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Their beers place in the Top 52% of the catalogue on average, across 14 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Sudden Death Brewing
Sudden Death Brewing is an independent craft brewery and brewpub founded in January 2022 by Oliver Schmökel and Jan Eric Nagel, two ice-hockey fans from the Timmendorfer Strand area on the Baltic coast. The brewery is housed in Hall 48 of the Gollan shipyard district (Werftquartier) in Lübeck, a venue that opened in April 2022. The founders drew inspiration for the name — a reference to sudden-death overtime in ice hockey — from American craft beers they discovered during trips to follow the Boston Bruins. The taproom and brewpub serve a rotating range of styles including Pale Ales, IPAs, Imperial IPAs, Stouts, and Sours.
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